Set up a new workspace
Five steps. The first four are setup; the fifth is the one that shows you what you bought.
- Create the workspace — Name it after the company, not the team — Huub is where the whole company's work lands, and a workspace named after one department gets treated as one department's tool.
- Bring the team in — Invite everyone at once rather than department by department. A messaging tool that half the company is on is a tool that generates two sets of context.
- Connect your tools — Start with the two or three where work actually happens. Connections are unlimited from Team upwards, so there is no reason to ration them — but connecting everything on day one makes it harder to tell what is useful.
- Bring your history — Import from whatever you are leaving. Threads keep their structure through an import, so replies stay attached to what they replied to.
- Ask the agent something only your workspace knows — This is the step that matters. Ask about a decision from a call, or a detail in a document nobody has opened in months. A cited answer is the point at which the workspace is doing something the previous tools could not.
Warning — A team that stops after step four has bought a chat application. Step five is the product.
What to expect in the first week
Moving a whole team at once is uncomfortable for a few days — people look for menus that have moved and habits that no longer apply. That discomfort is front-loaded and short. The alternative, migrating in waves, spreads it over months and keeps two sources of context alive the entire time.
Where to go next
- Unlimited message history — what the import gives you
- Personal AI agent — what step five is asking